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One of this years vacation destinations will be Yosemite National Park. We recently moved from the East coast to Washington State and I have always wanted to travel to Wyoming and view Yosemite Park. The one that I have read about is that it is better to stay within the park and camp there as the lines to get in and out of the park can average a couple of hours. So several things that we have learned in our online hunt for things to do and things to avoid are:
Great adventures are available all year, from snow boarding and snowshoeing in the winter to hiking and swimming in the summer. They even offer the Wawona gold course and an ice skating rink at Curry Village.
Plan to visit the Mariposa Grove which is located 36 miles south of Yosemite Valley. This is the largest stand of giant sequoias (also known as Sierra redwoods or big trees) in Yosemite. The road is not kept or plowed in the winter so cars cannot access. The Grove is accessible through the summer months. In the winter it can be accessed if you ski or hike in to view the natural beauty of these rare and disappearing resources.

Those looking to incorporate a great self awareness workshop should check out The Lotus Path Workshops. These are a series of spiritual workshops that take anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours and can help you connect with your self. Some of the objectives is to get you to realize how the past can influence the present and how to make the right connection.

Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck take shots at each other in a heated debate on ABC’s The View. Now Rosie made a rhetorical question, and was wanting Elisabeth to answer it. Elisabeth didn’t really choose to answer the question, prompting Rosie to refer to her as a “coward”. Now Elisabeth took that as an insult, and gave it right back to Rosie.

The whole thing doesn’t make much sense. Rosie is wrong for thinking Elisabeth is a coward. However, Elisabeth is wrong thinking she has to defend herself in the manner she did. If someone calls you a coward, and there really isn’t anything there to support it. Then it’s not really going to make you mad. If you run in a burning building and save some people, then someone calls you a coward. Your not going to be offended, because you are going to know that your heroic efforts weren’t the act of a coward.

So I really think both women are wrong, and all of this might be getting more attention than it deserves. Since Rosie has recently had a feud with Donald Trump and now this one. Makes her look like someone that just wants to argue all the time. Also, Elisabeth Hasselbeck is a cutie. So many people will take her side based on her cute looks over a heavy-set woman, that has less adoring physical features. Rosie is leaving in the next few weeks from the View. So the extra attention might can help her, in any other television adventures she might have up her sleeve.

Below is not the latest episode in this feud. This is an earlier show of the View, and might show that there was sparks leading up to this latest event. So this can give you a sense on how Rosie and Elisabeth have different oppinions. It might be as simple as one is democratic and one is republic. Then it can just purely be a disagreement on the way they view the war on terroism.

The legend of D.B. Cooper still lives today. Which is actually Duane Cooper, but was mistakenly named D.B. by a news reporter, and the name has stuck. D.B. Cooper did one of the most amazing robberies in American History. He first hi-jacked an Northwest Airlines flight 305 that was leaving Portland and bound for Seattle. He was sitting in Seat 18C, wearing sunglasses and a dark suit, handed a flight attendant a note. It said he had a bomb and threatened to blow up the Boeing 727 unless he received $200,000 cash and four parachutes when the plane landed. The man in Seat 18C purchased his ticket under the name “Dan Cooper.”

When the plane landed in Seattle, DB Cooper was given his parachutes and the 200,000 dollars that he requested. He released about 3 dozen passengers, and a couple of the flight crew members. He then instructed the pilot to fly toward Mexico, and at an altitude of 10,000 feet. Somewhere along the journey, DB would jump out of the Northwest Airlines Plane and would parachute down with the money with him. He done all of this the day before Thanksgiving in 1971.

The FBI started a massive manhunt for D.B. Cooper, that lasted for several months. It was a very costly manhunt, as they were using so many resources to capture the man that got away with 200,000 dollars of cash. Nothing from the investigations ever help to capture D.B. Cooper. Now more than 3 decades later, there’s still not much new in the case.

There are several people that have claimed to be D.B. Cooper, but nothing has materialized yet. The FBI has 2 canidates that they have strong suspicions about. Then just recently a couple of amateur investigators made a segment on Entertainment Tonight. They are claiming a resident in Oregon is D.B. Cooper, and have even written a book about it. The man does fit the profile, since he is a skydiver, and has been in trouble with the law before. He also called the FBI, just 2 hours after D.B. Cooper had jumped, saying that it wasn’t him, and if they needed any help, he would be happy to. This man from Oregon was apparently struggling for money at the time, and later on was able to buy over 30 acres of land with his own personal airport on it.

Another famous claim, was the death bed confession of a Florida man. He was on his death bed, and told his wife, that he was Duane Cooper. His wife didn’t know what that meant at the time, and later on, found patterns that was consistent to what her late husband was saying. The picture of this man back around the time in 1971, is a close resemblance to the sketch artist drawing of the skyjacker.

The case still remains listed as an active FBI Investigation, and nothing has been closed on the D.B. Cooper Case. It’s the only sky-jacking in the world, that has never been solved. Below is actual footage one day later of the news report on the situation: